On Sunday 26 January 2003 04:26, Graham Smith wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:03, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 24 January 2003 10:21 pm, David Herman wrote:
I love kmail but I'm really starting to get frustrated.
Every once in awhile Kmail will magically mark all the mail in certain folders as NEW. That wouldn't be a big problem except I spend a fair amount of time Marking messages that I find particularly fascinating as "Important". When kmail marks all the messages as new then it is easy to change the status of all messages to "Read" but I lose the visual cue I so lovingly created.
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Is there any way to restore the folders previous states rather than the unsatisfactory and ham fisted "folder-->mark all messages as read" menu?
Sorry to reply to my own message but I did a little more investigation. I found the same effect when I renamed some *.index files in my ~/Mail folder, so I suspect that something must be corrupting said indexes, and then either rebuilding them, or my marking all as read re-creates the files.
I haven't done much (any?) linux scripting but this seems like something that a script run by cron might allow me to work around. I don't want to backup the whole Mail folder every 1/2 hour (I don't seem to be losing mails) but the *.index, *.index.ids and *.index sorted files would sure be handy.
I'm open to suggestion ;-)
Hi,
I've had similar problems at work. What I found is that most of the problems are associated with mbox format, which was the default for earlier Kmail (I think). So I moved all the mail over to maildir format. I'm still evaluating if this overcomes the problem.
How do I do this move my old mails over to maildir format ? Thanks in advance Didi